Prolegomena mathematica : from Apollonius of Perga to late Neoplatonism : with an appendix on Pappus and the history of Platonism /

Prolegomena mathematica : from Apollonius of Perga to late Neoplatonism : with an appendix on Pappus and the history of Platonism /

This is the first study to deal with the history of Greek mathematics - starting with Appollonius and including astronomy - as part of the history of literary culture. It attempts to find out how mathematical works were presented by original authors (e.g. Ptolemy), and introduced and explained by co...

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Main Author: Mansfeld, Jaap.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.

Series: Philosophia Antiqua 80.
Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752.

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Mathematics, Greek.

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Call Number: QA22 .M34 1998

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • PRELIMINARIES
  • PAPPUS' COLLECTIO
  • COMMENTARIES ON EUCLID, THE SCHOLIA ON EUCLID'S ELEMENTS AND PAPPUS' COMMENTARY ON BOOK X
  • APOLLONIUS' PROEMS AND EUTOCIUS' COMMENTARY
  • EUTOCIUS' COMMENTARIES ON ARCHIMEDES, AND THE VITA
  • HERON OF ALEXANDRIA
  • THEON(?)'S PREFACE TO EUCLID'S OPTICA
  • MARINUS ON EUCLID'S DATA
  • PTOLEMY'S PREFACES
  • COMMENTARIES ON PTOLEMY
  • NICOMACHUS OF GERASA AND HIS COMMENTATORS
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX 1: THE TITLE OF PTOLEMY'S ASTROLOGICAL TREATISE
  • APPENDIX 2: PAPPUS AND THE HISTORY OF PLATONISM
  • COMPLEMENTARY NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX LOCORUM POTIORUM
  • INDEX RERUM ET NOMINUM ANTIQUORUM
  • PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA: A SERIES OF STUDIES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY by J. MANSFELD , D.T. RUNIA and J.C.M. VAN WINDEN.